Jessica Grewal
Senior Reporter APN Newsdesk NSW Bureau
Working from Sydney, Jessica specialises in crime/court reporting, filing for APN’s regional mastheads in Northern NSW as well as providing national content for the group.
She was previously Chief Reporter at the Fraser Coast Chronicle in Hervey Bay, Queensland where she grew up and trained.
Early in her career, she was named Queensland Young Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards.
More recently, she was finalist at the 2013 Kennedy Awards for Excellence in NSW Journalism in both the...

Mr Logue said his first call was to his real estate agency. He wasn't aware of the Department of Environment and Heritage's croc watch hotline until he spoke with reporters today.

Meanwhile, River Heads Progress Association President Billie Rustin said she notified the department along with Fraser Coast Councillor Darren Everard and the association's distribution list (which reaches about 300 local residents), via email.

While the unofficial crocodile boundary is the Boyne River, south of Gladstone, several crocodile sightings have been reported in the River Heads area in the past two years.

Crocodile sightings have previously been confirmed by the department in the nearby Mary River.

A 4.5m crocodile was targeted for removal in the Mary last year but evaded rangers.

A spokeswoman for EHP said last night the department had not yet received reports of a crocodile at River Heads but encouraged members of the public to call through sightings.

By coincidence however, rangers conducted a spotlight survey of the entire length of the Mary River, starting at the River Heads boat ramp last night as part of the Queensland Government's three-year crocodile population survey.

An EHP spokeswoman said no signs of crocodiles were detected.

The most recent crocodile report in the Mary River was of suspected tracks near the Lamington Bridge at Tinana on September 3.

On that occasion rangers determined that the tracks were made by a fox or dog as well as birds and a water dragon.